My neighbour on this street, Tee Ngugi, is rightly incensed by the opulent prayer shows staged in high places. He is not alone, even as he didn’t mention the “keynote” prayer warriors who fly in usually by private jets to grace the multi-million shilling breakfasts in African capitals that are teeming with hungry masses. One question Africans should discuss is whether Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed would honour a physical invitation to these extravagant feasts.
In fact, what is conspicuous at these prayer feasts are the things the pious participants pray for. You would have expected them to pray for an end to the real problems facing their countries, like the growing unnecessary debt burden and the stinking corruption, but you get this feeling that they are instead praying for the continuation of the problems. If they ever invited the suffering majority for the prayers, the “keynote” prayer would probably go like this:
